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25 Oct 2011
Updates • UX and UI

Vikido for iPhone – New Version

Hello to all Vikido friends!

Vikido has been updated, please download our latest version.

What’s new in this version:

  • Log-in bug fix
  • Added large media thumbnails to feeds. Photos, videos and links look much better now
  • Design improvements in Kids and Parents interface
  • New Navigation bar and Icons, improved usability
  • Feed auto-refresh bug fix
  • Audio & Video recorders bug fix

  
The shiny new version of Vikido is now available on the app store, go go go! :-)

You and your kids can now also experience Vikido in your web browser, we hope you’ll enjoy it! http://my.vikido.com

As always, we’d love to hear your feedback, don’t be shy, it’ll be fun!
Feel free to contact us with anything! support@vikido.com

Vikido Team

Amit | | Tags: , ,
04 Mar 2010
Uncategorized • Updates

Vikido Team Weekly – March 3 2010

Beyond fine tuning our corporation with Israel’s largest start page for kids, we’re starting a due diligence process with a possible first investor in this funding round.

The new Vikido player should be ready in a fortnight.
It will offer easy customization of skins and direct access to our player via API.

We’ve also started Vikido’s Facebook Page, and we’d love to have you join us there.

Recent Kids & Parenting Links:

Online Computer Safety – a parents how-to from the 5min blog, including tips by @EllenMeister - Overseeing Online Activities.

Sesame Street has 6 apps made for iPhone/iPod Touch, they are tons of fun, just follow Elmo…
Sesame-Street-App

Can kids create their own TV shows? qubo say they can.

@Kidzmodo is an Italian blog covering tech innovation for kids (English version).

For more updates, follow @VikidoTeam & Vikido Photostream

Amit |
09 Feb 2010
Uncategorized • Updates

Vikido Team Weekly – Feb 9 2010

We’ve been busy adding mobile capabilities, presenting Vikido to investors, gathering user feedback, and continued work on the upcoming English beta.

If you’d like to join our beta group, please register for an invite: http://www.vikido.com/beta/beta.php

In spite of power-point, code crunching, bug fixing and gallery building, it was impossible to avoid the iPad, and thoughts of how toddlers would adopt it.

Interesting Kids & Parenting stuff we followed this week:

A New School Teaches Students Through Videogames by Susannah F. Locke  for Popular Science

Generation Internet: That’s Anyone Under 30, Not Just Teens by Liz Gannes for @GigaOm

GadgetHER.com – Girl Power Central!

Is Apple tablet for the weak? how about this?
Fisher Price - Fun 2 Learn

Last but not least, we recommend following @BabyFirstTV a TV channel made just for babies, toddlers and parents.

For more updates, follow @VikidoTeam & Vikido Photostream

Amit |
01 Aug 2009
Updates

Vikido is alpha-testing

Finally, we started testing our UI on parents & kids and it’s been an eye opener on so many levels!

To begin with, we found out how important is the mobile integration on the parents’ side. If you get a message from your child you want to watch it now -  on your mobile phone. Surprisingly enough, sending a video link via sms proved to be easier and more effective than we thought and we are already working on allowing the parent to send back a message, using their phone,  via a video call. “Easier” does not mean effortless and we are battling to get a good world-wide sms cover,  stabilize the video output so it supports the majority of mobile phones, and to improve the video quality.

The UI itself works well for kids. In fact, the younger the kids are, the faster they get it! Parents on the other hand seem to need their own UI -  which will be ready for testing in two weeks.

Many tweaks are necessary for the UI to be accommodating and intuitive. We hope we got the majority of them on our to-do list but it will still take some time before we’re happy with our offering.

Here is an alpha tester at work:

Vikido UI tester

A frustrated Vikido UI tester :-)

Yami |